When Ford CEO Jim Farley announced the Mustang GTD last summer, he promised a supercar. The GTD team just finished a super lap to prove its power.
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Ford is celebrating its 2025 Mustang GTD for performing an incredible feat. The street-legal Mustang GTD just completed a lap at the German Nurburgring track faster than any other American car. When the car was announced last year, Ford CEO Jim Farley promised that the GTD would be able to conquer the famed Nurburgring track in under seven minutes and now it has. The Mustang GTD completed the lap of the 12.9-mile, 73-turn track in 6:57.685.
Fastest Lap for an American Brand
According to Ford, the 2025 Ford Mustang GTD is the first car from an American brand to complete a lap in under seven minutes. The GTD is only the sixth stock, production sports car to complete an officially certified sub-seven-minute lap and the fifth fastest in the production sports car class according to the Nürburgring's records. Nurburgring records show that four Porsches and a Mercedes hold the top records.
Ford CEO Jim Farley is pleased but looking for even better track times in the future. “The team behind Mustang GTD took what we’ve learned from decades on the track and engineered a Mustang that can compete with the world’s best supercars,” said Jim Farley, Ford President and CEO. “We’re proud to be the first American automaker with a car that can lap the Nürburgring in under seven minutes, but we aren’t satisfied. We know there’s much more time to find with Mustang GTD. We’ll be back.”
The 2025 Mustang GTD – Ford’s Street-Legal Race Car
As I reported in September,
The heart of the Mustang GTD is the supercharged 5.2-liter V8. It improves on previous Mustang engines and has a new oil system to help keep it lubricated. The GTD also has improved aerodynamics, carbon-ceramic brakes, and inboard-rear suspension. The GTD’s top speed of 202 MPH will be on full display.
The Mustang GTD also features a Drag Reduction System that can change the angle of the rear wing and activate flaps under the front of the car to find exactly the right balance between airflow for speed and downforce for grip, depending on performance conditions.
“We've combined the work of talented engineers and designers, as well as an extremely capable driver, with Mustang GTD technology, power and aerodynamics,” said Goodall.
Race Car Origins and Price Tag to Match
The 2025 Ford Mustang GTD is a street-legal version of Ford’s GT3 race car. Ironically, it is more powerful than the GT3 because the racing series limits how powerful the race cars can be. Ford doesn’t talk about the price of the GTD much, but the super Mustang is expected to cost at least $300,000. Ford is expected to only build about 1,000 of the GTDs. Because of its racing genes and limited production run, the 2025 Ford Mustang GTD is expected to be an instant collectible.
2025 Mustang GTD’s Nurburgring Success
Driven by Multimatic Motorsports driver Dirk Müller, the 815-horsepower Mustang GTD lapped the circuit nicknamed “The Green Hell” in an officially certified 6:57:685. It’s the fifth fastest time by a stock production sports car according to the Nürburgring’s official records and Mustang GTD is only the sixth vehicle in that class to break the seven-minute barrier.
Mustang GTD’s Nürburgring success is due to the work of a small, dedicated team of engineers and designers. Multimatic Motorsports driver Dirk Müller drove the 815-horsepower Mustang for the Nurburgring record. The team worked tirelessly over the course of two years to turn the Mustang GT3 race car into the first-ever Mustang supercar. Ford documented their efforts in a documentary titled “The Road To The Ring.”
The documentary captures the vehicle’s testing on iconic American tracks like Sebring, to sessions at the Nürburgring. It features Farley, Muller, Multimatic Chief Technical Officer Larry Holt, Mustang GTD Chief Program Engineer Greg Goodall, and other key players as they proceed with the Mustang GTD testing.
See the 13-minute documentary here.
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